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Archives for January 2016

Artists: Violet Dennison, Aleksander Hardashnakov, Hanna Hur, Autumn Ramsey, Urban Zellweger Exhibition title: Of Fauna and Flora Venue: Tomorrow, New York, US Date: January 15 – February 14, 2016 Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Tomorrow, New York So I’m going to sit in this ayahuasca ceremony and we’re all in a circle and everyone has had medicine and we’re all just sitting there quiet and time is going on and I’m not feeling anything. I’m just kind of getting annoyed and I’m looking at the people who are running this circle and it’s, like, these guys. And I’m like, “look at these fucking guys—just want to come […]

Artists: KP Brehmer, Fred Lonidier, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Seth Siegelaub, Hannah Weinberger, Charlotte Posenenske Exhibition title: Distributors Curated by: Remco Torenbosch Venue: West, The Hague, The Netherlands Date: November 28, 2015 – January 16, 2016 Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artist, West, The Hague and Vilma Gold London Distributors takes on multiple forms of address: an exhibition, a roundtable, and a booklet that gathers works that challenge systems of distribution in relation to production. Brought together by the Dutch artist Remco Torenbosch, Distributors takes a perspective on the flow of material and the precarity of the subject. As a whole these forms becomes self-reflexive by questioning how the dissociation of […]

Artist: Shelly Nadashi Exhibition title: Hide And Seekers Venue: 1646, The Hague, The Netherlands Date: December 18, 2015 – January 24, 2016 Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artist and 1646 Naked Clay is a technical term originating from the world of ceramics, referring to any burnt hardware that hasn’t been glazed, but rather was left “au naturel”. Reminiscent of the biblical idea of clay as flesh, the exhibition Hide and Seekers unfolds a body of naked terracotta elements: low reliefs inhabiting figurative as well as decorative elements composed of tiles; water features; and bowls. Burnt clay, water and the exhibition-goer become the principal components here. Tiles, characteristically, are stuck […]

Artist: Dan Shaw-Town Exhibition title: Arbeta Venue: Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, Spain Date: November 14, 2015 – January 16, 2016 Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Maisterravalbuena, Madrid Experimentation is at the heart of Shaw-Town’s practice. Where materials and meaning are consumed and recycled, and subsequently presented as manifestations of process as content. The value of ‘found’ or ‘made’ objects and images are treated equally, they each perform an important role and speak about routine, ritual and the act of doing. The understanding of language and its functions also plays a key role in the way Shaw-Town makes work: “My wife and daughter speak Swedish in our home, it’s a […]

Artist: Paul Sochacki Exhibition title: Epistemic Heartbreak Venue: EXILE, Berlin, Germany Date: December 5, 2015 – January 16, 2016 Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artist and EXILE, Berlin A picnic blanket on canvas, a casual group with cake (or cheese?) sitting around it, a bottle, a few glasses of wine: Here they are, mouse, caterpillar, colorful bird. Dolphin, snowman, octopus (with half-bald head). A dog, saying something, namely: “we are human”. And then: “no nationality”. Smoking Kills (2015) is the name of this painting by Paul Sochacki. It is part of an exhibition that is titled Epistemic Heartbreak, which somehow seems to make sense: It’s crawling with breaks. Animals that […]